Unlocking the Internet of Value

25-26 April 2019 | Olympia Grand London

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Blockchain Technologies 2018

Discover the future of the most innovative technology of our time

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Day 2 - 19 April 2018

Blockchain Technologies – Day 2

There has been a flurry of new start ups, announcements, new user cases, and applications being developed using blockchain technology. Research provides strong evidence that blockchain technology could transform existing business models and invent new forms of business in a profound way. The Blockchain technologies track examines key challenges for developers building these initiatives, you will also hear from a number of innovative Blockchain start ups, their business cases, and case studies, and be able to see how to partner with a number of emerging technology players to forward your Blockchain services. According to Markets and Markets, the global blockchain technology market is expected to rise from $210m in 2016 to $2.31bn by 2021. In this session, leading venture capitalists and investors will examine the emerging blockchain technology landscape and why there is so much attention around the sector. The blockchain technologies track look at how Blockchain companies are creating disruptive solutions to real world problems.

11:00AM

Jim Nasr

Vice President, Technology & Innovation

Synchrogenix

11:00AM - Day 2

02:00PM - Day 1

It’s more than Blockchain

Blockchain is relevant for many use cases in different industries. However, it’s not magic. You need to know where and how to use it, and what else to do to get material business results. It turns out that blockchain is conceptually just a playground in a larger Software Theme Park of interoperable software.

This talk will help to demystify some things and shed light on some other things possibly lost in the hype. The content is based on lessons learned conceiving and implementing blockchain at large scale for public health and later expanded for other health and life sciences use cases. What actually works at scale, what doesn’t and where to start.

12:10PM

Hideki Ehara

CEO/Managing Director

AI Innovation Japan

12:10PM - Day 2

AI Innovation – Japan’s One Stop Shop Full Service ICO Production Company

Mr. Ehara will describe his experience thinking through, planning for, and successfully executing his company’s ICO – and listing it on multiple exchanges; and share key learnings of what works and what doesn’t from his leading five other ICOs of companies based in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Having subsidiaries in Singapore and Myanmar, Mr. Ehara will explain the company’s expansion plans to other regional markets and how it will be able to serve the global investor community.

. Hideki Ehara, CEO/Managing Director , AI Innovation Japan

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12:20PM

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Jess Houlgrave

COO

Codex Protocol

Associated Talks:

12:20PM - Day 2

How blockchain will expand the art & collectibles asset class

Jess will look at how blockchain technology is impacting the art world including how and why Codex Protocol and it’s industry consortium are using blockchain to tackle major challenges in the art and collectibles asset class.

. Jess Houlgrave, COO, Codex Protocol

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12:30PM

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Maksim Akulshin

Co-founder, Architect and CTO

eCoinomic.net

Associated Talks:

12:30PM - Day 2

View Why cryptocurrency is the obvious solution to the surplus of the world’s money supply

01:10PM

Rick Burnett

CEO

LaneAxis

01:10PM - Day 2

Shipper to Carrier Direct: Eliminating the Middlemen

Learn how the Blockchain will connect Shippers to Carriers directly, cutting out expensive third party freight brokers. As well as how Blockchain’s immutable ledger will store and secure critical shipment documents.

03:40PM

Networking Break

04:00PM

Chris Tse

Founding Director

Cardstack

04:00PM - Day 2

Humanizing the Blockchain: Why We Must Put the User Experience First

In 2018, blockchain’s very best user interfaces still fall far short of being a cohesive experience that puts users back in control of their digital lives. If we want the decentralized Internet to achieve mass adoption, we need to put user experience first. The challenges: How can we design dApps to be as intuitive and powerful as the apps offered by today’s centralized digital superpowers, while preserving the most important benefits of decentralization? What are the conceptual hurdles in users’ minds that we need to overcome? And instead of recreating the kinds of app ecosystems we already know, could we create something even better? Cardstack founding director Chris Tse provides an emphatic yes — and explains his approach.

12:00PM - Day 1

Blockchain alone isn’t enough to provide true cybersecurity — but add it to trusted computing, and you’ve got a powerful combination that keeps an immutable record of what you’re doing while ensuring that it’s what you wanted to do. Our entire security system is centralized — that’s why Equifax and other high-profile hacking targets have been so attractive. Blockchain decentralizes that, making it more difficult to get them. But if that’s all we use, we’re negating all the other security controls we’ve developed over the past decades. There’s a need for something that makes use of both
This discussion will focus on the need for Decentralized Cyber security in partnership with blockchain. Demonstrate the benefit of provable cyber security controls assuring the data on a chain was intended and focus on the use of imbedded security to increase the quality and value of information on blockchain, IoT, Cloud services.

. Steven Sprague, CEO , Rivetz

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04:40PM

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Michael de Blok

Vice President

Seal USA

Associated Talks:

04:40PM - Day 2

View How counterfeited products fund terrorism and how Seal aims to combat this